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  1. umterp23
    Nice heater Jeffers is on, currently riding a 9 game hitting streak which I believe is career best. Funny how over a year ago, many wondered why we shipped out soft hitting Rortvedt to Yankees and kept Jeffers. Nice to know we held on to Jeffers and are be rewarded with watching his steady climb of improvement. Rort has been on IL 4 times with Yankees and hitting .125 in limited sample size.
  2. umterp23
    Don't see Twins doing anything at this deadline to address right handed bat. Lineup tonight posted a few minutes ago has Wallner, Taylor, Kepler (OF) and Gallo at 1B. So looks like this quartet is here to stay. Obviously guys can get scratched if trade comes through, but just not seeing it
  3. umterp23
    I like the idea but maybe not the partner. E-Rod is 20 years old, lefty/lefty OF with some speed, some power. Currently at Cedar Rapids and not necessarily lighting it on fire but does fit the mold of 30% K rate the Twins seem to live with. At best 3 years from seeing target field but could be longer. Are we losing anything at this point by including him in a trade? I don't think so. Pirates are truly the Pirates and always play the 5 year plan every year is year one of the plan. Ownership runs the team as a business and don't care much for worrying about being a true competitor. Living in Pittsburgh area, the running joke is Penguins make the playoffs and then Steelers training camp conversation and activity ramps up after July. So Pirates, get one month of attention. Wallner and Larnach, redundant attributes and both may not be long term fixtures either, so do we lose one of those guys and miss a beat? Not sure we would. Somebody has to win the division, Twins have the talent to be that team. Playoffs is a crap shoot, got hot and win one game one and monkey starts to jump off your back. Who knows at that point
  4. umterp23
    https://www.ballysports.com/north/news/statuesday-breakout-minnesota-twins-catcher-ryan-jeffers-flying-under-the-radar I think we are good hands with Jeffers.
  5. umterp23
    Good win for the Twins today. When you put the ball in play, good stuff can happen and eventually we got the good stuff late in the game. Vazquez swinging on 2-0 fastball below the knees isn't a pitch you can do anything with. He should know better. Happy for Jeffers especially after taking one under the chin on foul ball. No days off, boys need to find energy with Mariners coming to town. Go Twins!
  6. umterp23
    Would you send Gordon, Corey Lewis and Simeon Wood-Richardson?
  7. umterp23
    Live in Pittsburgh area, nice thunderstorm rolling through at moment... Guardians/Pirates most likely delayed till 8pm ET or later
  8. umterp23
    Rocco looked at his spreadsheet and it screamed righty/lefty rotational lineup.
  9. umterp23
    Buxton needs to be on IL till he is 100% healthy. Sure doesn't need a rest day since he did a lot of walking back and for dugout to plate to dugout over the weekend. Baffled by Wallner not getting a run since being called up.
  10. umterp23
    I get it and I agree but like I said, he isn't flashy but he makes plays. The "hot take" that is flat out not good doesn't really fit the narrative.
  11. umterp23
    Polanco has 2 errors in 29 games at 2nd, Julien as 2 errors in 31 games. Not sure the article commentary of "frankly not been good" applies. He makes plays, flashy no, but makes plays. Trade Polanco and rotate Julien and Farmer at 2nd base and Julien can DH when Buxton goes on IL with exhaustion or neck injury from staring at the Jumbotron after walking back to the dugout. Polanco's body is failing him more than ever this year, can't hurt to ship him out along with Miranda to see what you can get. I don't see either one of them giving us much down the stretch
  12. umterp23
    At what point did Rocco really think Duran could go two innings again vs the O's? Didn't work out for the good guys in Baltimore last weekend and yet Statistical or Maniacal Rocco sent him back out there again. Vazquez calling for curveball after curveball back to back innings and O's weren't looking heater. Poor execution all around. Correa looking to be hero when very easily could have be a leader and bunted runner to 2nd in the 8th. Man on 2nd with one out but $33MM double play batter Correa proves otherwise. Bullpen usage for 3 days including off day of 21 pitches going into last night. I don't care if Duran is "stretched out" to be ready, you burned him for Saturday. Offense was offensive again, but at least they only struck out 8x's this go around. Julien almost the hero on broken bat high foul ball, but not to be
  13. umterp23
    Some are better but superior is strong reference: Vazquez .989 fielding % 6 errors 5 double plays 2 pass balls 18 assists 10 caught stealing Jeffers .994 fielding %. 2 errors 3 double plays 3 pass balls 13 assists 8 caught stealing Jeffers has improved on both sides of the plate. Vazquez is superior in salary though!
  14. umterp23
    Problem is the same answer is super vague. Until he is fully healthy is not an answer. It is like the NFL/NHL player reports because they have to say something, lower body injury. Sprinting on every single ball in play isn't really true for CF. 1st reaction to batted ball, I get. I played CF and corner OF all through college and yes there is reaction time to batted ball but no one is sprinting on everytime, just doesn't happen. Buxton by not playing defense has a trickle down effect on the lineup. Full buxton helps other parts of lineup and role players can be role players.
  15. umterp23
    Lopez/Jeffers were in sync resulting in CG. The shutout was icing on the cake with some nice plays in the field. Jeffers sure has held his own from the catching side of things, calling really good games and bringing some offense to the table. Keep hearing Buxton isn't healthy to play CF, but looks like fine scoring/run from 1st on bloop double dine the line to RF. Sure wish FO and Rocco can explain why he isn't healthy to play some defense. Let's hope coming out of the break we see a full Buxton vs 25% version we get at DH
  16. umterp23
    So can the staff at the ASG break, seems like that is where this is headed
  17. umterp23
    The talk about joy and love for the game, really easy as a brave to have joy and love when you are the best team in National League, hands down and running right with Rays as best overall. When you win, there is joy and love for the game. When you don't, there is no joy in Mudville. Twins have issues in this lineup for sure and all have been stated to unleash our venting fury. Lineup needs changes, personnel needs changes plain and not so simple. Correa and Buxton will never bat in bottom half of lineup, regardless of how piss poor they are at the plate. Correa, Buxton, Kepler, Vasquez ($66.976MM in salary this year) go 1 for 15 !! only one not to hit into double play was Buxton and they only had 3 K's (so only bright spot if you can call it one).
  18. umterp23
    Game of inches, feet and luck of batted balls is the Twins in games like this. Gallo does enough with 98mph heater for homer and 1 run lead. Julien two base hits were both "barreled" of 80mph for bloop base hits. Hit'em where they aint worked for him. Jeffers two "BARRELED" outs were both 100mph with liner to 2nd baseball after almost taking pitchers head off and Rosario making a really nice sliding catch in the 8th. If Rosario misses, Jeffers on 2nd, Julien and AK would have produced a run and outcome might have been different. Game of inches for Jeffers but nothing to show for it. Buxton is "hurting" this team with how fragile he is. Twins have tried to bubble wrap him for protection and we still get fragile version of glorified Lee Majors "15" million dollar man. Put the dude on IL and get him back after All-Star break. Correa, good defense, not clutch with the bat.
  19. umterp23
    Yankees jettisoned Aaron Hicks and O's sure made that look like a good move to have him playing since Mullins had to go on IL. $11MM Gallo, $8.5MM Kepler, Garlick $750K, for a corner outfield of 2 lefties a "lefty masher" and we are in the position of wold of, could of for DH for the Pirates. Twins knew at that time Buxton was going to be DH and Cutch was better off going back to where he started. Let's move on Give me Wallner & Larnach and let the other lefties enjoy early retirement from Twins.
  20. umterp23
    Badoo caught lighting in a bottle his rookie season as there wasn't a good book on him for opposing pitchers. Now we see the real Badoo since he has generated a large enough sampling on how to attack him. We really didn't lose on not protecting him.
  21. umterp23
    So I truly do laugh at the Rocco "Buxton is no where close to playing in the field" which requires running and throwing a baseball. So Bremer recaps the interview portion while buxton walks to 1st Base. He then says Buxton can still run and steal bases even though he isn't in the field. So, begs to question, if he can "run and steal bases" why the bleepity bleep can't he play defense in CF? Maybe since he isn't use to be on base much in the last month he is out of shape. What bunch of horse crap Rocco feeds the spineless media to not call him out on anything he says. Other than that, Go Twins!
  22. umterp23
    No need to demote Lewis at this time. The way the Twins are trending as a team in the crappiest division in baseball, the trade deadline we could be moving more pieces out/off the team that will allow all the young guys to be on the roster together. I'm more excited about that then anything else at this point. Slow death by 1,000 statistical paper cuts is upon us.
  23. umterp23
    Big Money offensive players aren't getting the job done in any shape of reliability. Stuck in contracts with Big 3 who aren't doing much to "lead" this team: '23 salaries on multi-year contracts: Correa $33MM Buxton $15MM, Vazquez $10MM ... this group went 1 for 11 with 5 K's. '23 salaries on final year they should be a twin: Gallon $11MM, Kepler $8.5MM with Gallo going 1 for 3 and Kepler didn't even play (not a bad thing). Combined with these guys they make up 50.74% of the team payroll. Gallo is what we thought we would get, so not surprised there except sucks to pay him $11MM for a .196 K/HR guy. Buxton, injury prone on team friendly deal who has lingering knee, ribs ailments. Knee should have bene addressed off-season as he is hurting the team more than helping. I don't want to hear or praise how they are bubble wrapping this guy and he will play in over 120 games this year. He is appearing in that amount of games has influenced the game for about 4 minutes per game. Must be exhausting walking up to bat and walking back to the dugout. Correa has to be laughing at the steal of paycheck he is earning at the moment. $10MM per year to Vazquez at age 32 for a "great" game caller and no hard contact guy. Sure 2 rings but I just don't see the influence he has on the team. 8 prior seasons he made $20MM and we want to pay him $30MM for 3 years where he is aging on the downside of his career at catcher position. Yeah us Kepler didn't even play las night, enough said about dead pull hitter who can't beat the non-shift defense. Time to jettison some dead money is now, starting with Kepler. Trade him for a low level prospect at best or just plain DFA the guy. Don't care that he plays decent defense at this stage in his lackluster career, give the spot to others and let it roll. Go Twins
  24. umterp23
    Thought I heard Bremer on air the other night say that left handed pull hitters on avg saw an increase of 12 points to their batting avg with the new shift ban rules. I guess Kepler thought it meant -12 points as he is solidly below the dreaded Mendoza line at .191. But people say he is a great clubhouse leader. Time to bench the guy but that won't happen
  25. umterp23
    Kyle Garlick "The Lefty Masher" is not good at all. Can't hit righties, can't hit lefties, but still on the team and bats 3rd. Roster moves I would make: Larnach & Gordon for Ruiz. Gordon, nice story but we don't need a light weight multi-position player and isn't long term. Larnach known as a great hitter in college hasn't put it together at MLB level. Taylor here next year and part of longer term plan? I don't think so. Kepler is a 4th OF on any team and those trading for him don't need to and give up anything on equal value. His value is all time low and will only go lower that he is playing. Love to move him but just don't see it happening for good value back unless you package him with Miranda that as no defensive position in the infield and is he a good DH option? Miranda isn't going to a starting fixture in the field in '24 and years after. Not if Buxton is your full time DH this year or future years to come. Have we soured on Lopez in the pen. Could that sweeten the pot for someone who needs a right arm in pen. Next 45 days or so should be interesting, especially if we can build a 5-10 game lead in the central, hell any lead in the central will make this interesting.
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